You asked about Food Service Robots & Machines
156 people built something like it. 0 are gone.
That is 0% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2017-06-01 | Pop Meals is a restaurant chain without chefs. All recipes are… · popmeals.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Remote labor for restaurants · biteninja.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Great tasting produce, farmed around the corner · beanstalk.farm | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCStrideQ Automated phone ordering system for restaurants · strideq.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCteaBOT A robot that makes tea! · teabot.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Robots for longer-lasting, better-tasting fish at scale. · shinkei.systems | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCRappi On-demand delivery and financial services for Latin America. · rappi.com | still up |
| 2015-01-01 | AI-powered technology enabler and digital transformer of American… · grubmarket.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCChaldal chaldal.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCZepto 10-Minute Grocery Delivery in India · zeptonow.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YCCalii Full-stack grocery delivery in LatAm · calii.com | still up |
| 2023-11-28 | dobb-e.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCTovala A smart-oven-paired subscription meal service. · tovala.com | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | We make robots for biologists. · opentrons.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Food delivery service in Africa · beudelivery.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCVendease Where restaurants in Africa buy food supplies · vendease.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCLezzoo Lezzoo is an on-demand delivery Superapp for Iraq. · lezzoo.com | still up |
| 2022-07-26 | cvat.ai | still up |
| 2011-01-01 | Zerocater is revolutionizing how companies feed their employees · zerocater.com | still up |
| 2022-05-16 | pawmenow.com | still up |
| 2013-01-01 | Empowering restaurants and small food makers to ship nationwide. · goldbelly.com | still up |
| 2022-01-02 | moderation.app | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | Building a world where alternative proteins are no longer alternative. · gfi.org | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCChowdeck On-demand food delivery for Africa · chowdeck.com | still up |
| 2022-05-08 | sizzzle.app | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCChari B2B e-commerce and fintech platform for traditional proximity stores · chari.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | Turning food waste into Biochar to remove CO2 from the atmsophere · releaf.africa | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Aviron transforms workouts with game-based exercise machines, making… · avironactive.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Virtual Restaurants & Stores for Africa · getfoodcourt.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | Grocery Delivery in Pakistan · kravemart.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCShef Shef is a Marketplace for Homemade Food · shef.com | still up |
| 2021-12-09 | paulbricman.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | Taking from 1 to 100 the premade food industry in LATAM · todoscomemos.com | still up |
| 2014-06-01 | YCFlaviar Try-at-home service for fine spirits · flaviar.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFitHub The one-stop shop for healthy products · fithub.com.co | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | Cheese and dairy products from plant-derived dairy proteins · nobellfoods.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCHedgehog Building robotic mushroom farms · hedgehogfoods.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCBoostly Premier growth platform for restaurants · boostly.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCLineLeap LineLeap gets customers to the fun, faster. · lineleap.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCPositive B2B supplier of fresh/healthy packaged food · positive.co | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Juicy marbles makes thick juicy and marbled plant based steaks. · juicymarbles.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCMobot Mobot is a QA-as-a-service platform using actual mechanical robots · mobot.io | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Robots that automate the everyday tasks of microbiologists. · reshapebiotech.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCHeyfood Doordash for Africa · heyfood.africa | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Making all ships robots. · fleetzero.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | Order ahead at restaurants and get rewards with friends. · snackpass.co | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCSOMATIC Bathroom cleaning robots for office buildings. · getsomatic.com | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | Makes guilt-free plastics from food waste · genecis.co | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | AI customer reputation & performance management for restaurant chains. · superorder.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCGainful Personalized Performance Nutrition · gainful.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCOlaClick Restaurant Solution (E-commerce via WhatsApp + POS + CRM/Marketing) · olaclick.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCGlimpse Glimpse is the system of action for CPG retail operations · tryglimpse.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | We build robots for dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs. · lucidbots.com | still up |
| 2024-06-01 | Practical and delightful home robots · weaverobotics.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | Robots that build solar farms · chargerobotics.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCZBiotics ZBiotics makes genetically engineered probiotics. · zbiotics.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCKingdom Clinically-validated ingredients from natural microbes · kingdomsuperculture.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCKaso AI group purchasing for restaurants · kaso.ai | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCCopia Copia's a for-profit technology company that solves food waste &… · gocopia.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | Non-profit building open-source voting machines for US elections. · voting.works | still up |
How this compares
Y Combinator reports its own outcomes, including acquisitions. The other two are judged by asking the domain, so they are not measured the same way and are never averaged together.
Older launches have had longer to die, so this slope is expected. A year that broke it would mean something is wrong with the checking.
The register re-probes every domain it holds. Some that answered last month stop answering. We send that list — what went quiet, and what it was — once a month. Nothing else.
How this was made. Show HN entries are every post from 2021 to 2023 with at least five points that linked to its own domain; code hosts and free hosting are excluded, because a repository outlives the effort behind it. Product Hunt entries needed 100 votes — a far higher bar, so they are the promoted top slice rather than a like-for-like sample. Both are judged by asking the domain whether it still answers: gone means it no longer resolves, refuses the connection, serves a parking page, or says plainly that it shut down. An HTTP error is not counted as gone — a server answering 404 is one somebody still pays for, and an audit of 25 gone-calls found two such sites alive with only a moved homepage. Y Combinator entries use the status YC publishes itself, which is why only those can say acquired. Squatted domains — a lapsed name now serving somebody else's site — are not detected, so these figures run slightly low.